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Non-tenure
where one denied ever to have been tenant of the land in question, or special, where it was alleged he was not tenant on the day whereon the writ was sued out, 1 Mod. 181. The distinction
Note of allowance
Note of allowance. This was a note delivered by a master to a party to a cause, who alleged that there was error in law in the record and proceedings allowing him to bring error. See (English)
Officio, Ex, Oath
Officio, Ex, Oath, an oath whereby a person might be obliged to make his answer to any matters alleged against him, and extending originally even to criminal charges. It was derived from the practice of the Ecclesiastical
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Parties
and non-joinder. All persons may be joined as plaintiffs in whom the right to any relief claimed is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally, or in the alter-native. Two or more defendants may be joined, in case
Passengers
to the liability of a passenger to pay his fare without demand under a bye-law, fraud not being alleged, see London Passenger Transport Board v. Sumner, 1935 WN 196.
Per quod
Per quod (whereby), a phrase formerly made use of by a plaintiff in a declaration alleging special damage, without which an action would not have been maintainable. means on the basis of or with
Perjury
be punishable as such, solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false (s. 13); in other words, there must be corroboration on that issue. Of the remaining
Petition of Right
in 1626, the Commons refused to grant supplies until certain rights and privileges of the subject, which they alleged had been violated, should have been solemnly recognised by a legislative enactment. With this view they framed a
Pro forma defendant
is a defendant named as a matter of formality, who typically has no direct responsibility for the harm alleged, but shares an interest with other defendants, such as being a co-owner of property or successor in interest.
Redlining
means credit discrimination (usually unlawful discrimination) by a financial institution that refuses to make loans on properties in allegedly bad neighbourhoods; the process of creating a new draft of a document showing suggested revisions explicitly alongside the
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